I was really surprised my bib # was so low. I talked to the other number around me to let them know to pass if they needed to and that I would stop at the wall if needed. Started out hard in an attempt to catch up to the person in front of me and draft. I never got up.

At each wall (50m pool) I would look back - so far, so good. At the 200m point, I saw the closest person behind me hadn't made it to the wall in the lane behind me (>50m). This hurt me mentally. I allowed myself to breast stroke from ~225m to 300m. I did finish with the crawl.

Even with the breast stroke, I managed to break 2min/100yd. First time in a race doing this.

Swim the entire distance in crawl.

Fiddled with my helmet buckle. Finally got it buckled. Struggled into my shoes.

Need to get tri-shoes.

Went out moderate to begin with. After the turn around (~2 miles) started pushing harder. At 3 miles remaining, went all out. Leap frogged one guy several times (#169).

Super secret goal was to catch up with Karen (KSH). Her bib# was 22 so there was no way. I saw her once on the bike course.

Nothing. I was happy with the bike.

I've tried pulling my feet out of my shoes in training with no luck. I have road shoes and need tri-shoes.

Get tri-shoes.

3 of the top 5 men were running their cooldown behind me the entire time. I was listening to their stories. I was moderately pushing the majority of the run. The last 1/2 mile was pushing hard.

Stayed behind #169 the majority of the way. The last 1/2 mile I passed him for good.

Train more.

Walk around. Eat pancakes. Talk with Brandon (bmcgee), Jonny (JBrashear), Karen (KSH), & Gary (Gaarryy).


Training. I took off ~2 1/2 weeks at the beginning of July for vacation.


They did a great job with the event. They were late starting the swim (7:20 instead of 7). A ton of volunteers out there. I will do it again.